MEAL Advisor, Assistant at Solidarites International

Location: Maiduguri, (Borno State) with movements inside the state

Probationary Period: 2 months

Contract Duration: 7 months, subject to renewal upon available donor funding.

Responsibilities and Tasks

Under the MEAL Advisor, the MEAL Advisor Assistant support program and monitoring teams in the field for MEAL methodology adaptation, planning and implementation. He (she) contributes to the capacity building of Program and monitoring teams regarding monitoring activities, contributes to the consolidation of all program data related to monitoring activities and ensures personal flexibility (emergency phase), involvement and respect.

List of principal activities

Relevance, monitoring, accountability and evaluation of activities:

• Participate with the DCD, Grant Manager, technical advisors and PMs to the definition of relevant indicators for project proposals
• Support, with the support of the MEAL Advisor, all programs to adhere to established monitoring methodology and frameworks
• Support, with the MEAL Advisor, the PMs in the development of their specific M&E plans and in the questionnaires creation and update
• Accompany teams in the field to undertake MEAL activities or launch specific MEAL activities as designed with the MEAL Advisor or PMs
• Support PMs and monitoring teams for database management, data frames creation, cleaning and analysis
• Contribute to the revision of APUIC and dashboards updated by field teams
• Participate to the definition of an accountability framework and follow up its setting up
• Participate to the definition and implementation of internal program evaluations

Capacity Building and Human Resources Follow-up

• Assess through scheduled field visits the training needs of monitoring and other program teams
• Provide guidance and capacity building to team members on monitoring activities through regular field visits
• Prepare with the MEAL Advisor and PMs adapted training for the field teams
• Ensure that all SI team members understand and respect the humanitarian principles and working procedures
• Support the MEAL Advisor and PMs for recruitment of Monitoring staff (define and correct technical tests, conduct interviews if required) when required
• Contribute to the briefing of new local and expatriate staff on the monitoring methodology and mission requirements

Institutional Knowledge Building

• Centralize program databases and maps at mission level
• Ensure, with the DCD and technical advisors, that the archiving methodology is followed on every program
• Develop maps based on the mission requirements and support bases for the development of relevant maps
• Contribute, with the support of the MEAL Advisor and other Technical Advisors, to the fact that  activity sheets are developed as planned by the mission

Reporting / coordination / communication / representation

• Write weekly reports to his/her line manager and after each field mission/visits
• Assist the Grant Manager in reviewing and writing any donor reports for the monitoring related parts
• Assist the Grant manager and technical advisors in reviewing monitoring reports
• Participate to GIS external meetings and monitoring ones if any
• Contribute to the consolidation of 5Ws

ORGANIZATIONAL CHART POSITION

• Line manager: MEAL Advisor
• Functional report’s:  Monitoring teams

III. Profile required :

• Training: Preferably a Bachelor's Degree in a related field: Computer Engineering, Statistics, Information management, Social Sciences, WASH, etc. or at least one year of work experience in a related discipline.
• Experience in community work with previous experience in project monitoring, preferably with an NGO within Borno States.
• Demonstrated skills in planning, organizing, analyzing and reporting
• Languages: English, Hausa, Kanuri
• IT skills: Excellent knowledge of Office software: Excel, Word, Outlook. Knowledge of data collection tools (Kobo), database management software and GIS software is a must.
• Personal qualities: Willingness, ability to perform field work and work under pressure
• Reliable, honest, very good organization, resistance to stress, good interpersonal skills (communication), team player